Ask HN: Where do you draw the line between technical and non-technical?

[scas]

Forgive my naivete, but since I started reading HN earlier this year, I've seen the terms "technical" and "non-technical" thrown around a lot, mainly when it comes to founders, but not limited to that.

From my perspective, it seemed implied that "technical" is synonymous with "coder/developer" and "non-technical" being "everybody else". So, I ask, where do you draw the line?

[rohitkumar]

That's pretty much it. Either you code or you don't.

[scas]

To me, what you said seems like the other technical people that don't write code would be considered "non-technical", which doesn't make sense to me. I, for example, don't write code but I'm far from non-technical. So... I'm still confused.